This is a guest post by Phil Hill from Delta Initiative, follow on Twitter @PhilOnEdTech or his blog Brown University announced today that they will be moving from MyCourses, which is their branded version of Blackboard Campus Edition (formerly WebCT), to Instructure’s Canvas LMS. They have already been piloting the Instructure system, and plan to fully move […]
Role of Educational Technology in Enabling Higher Ed Change
This is a guest post by Phil Hill from Delta Initiative, follow on Twitter @PhilOnEdTech or his blog Over the weekend, and over the big pond, Music for Deckchairs had two interesting posts that called me out for perhaps being too optimistic on the transformation of LMS markets. The two posts referenced my recent posts on New […]
New Mentality Entering LMS Market
This is a guest post by Phil Hill from Delta Initiative, follow on Twitter @PhilOnEdTech or his blog Since 2008 I have been sharing with clients the observation that the current generation of LMS solutions were conceived and designed circa 1996 – 2004. This timeframe was eons ago in terms of technology and business models. Furthermore, the […]
3 Surprising LMS Market Observations
This is a guest post by Phil Hill from Delta Initiative, follow on Twitter @PhilOnEdTech or his blog In a recent post, I argued that Blackboard is most likely losing at least 150 clients per year in their LMS core business. This is part of my larger argument that the LMS market is changing significantly. The reason […]
SunGard HE and Blackboard Acquisitions: Compare and Contrast
UPDATE: In the section on ‘Cash Cow vs. Growth Potential’, my choice of words could have caused misunderstanding. I did not mean to equate Operating Income with Cash Flow, and my choice of the word ‘cash’ in this section should really have been ‘income’, as my analysis was obviously based on Operating Income. I have […]
Emerging Trends in LMS / Ed Tech Market
This is a guest post by Phil Hill. Phil Hill is executive vice president of Delta Initiative and has been consulting in educational technology for over 8 years, with a strong focus on the LMS market. He is also the founder of HBO Systems, which merged operations with Delta Initiative in 2008. Phil is known to many in […]